The IFPI and the City of London Police and the Intellectual Property Office have this week arrested a 33 year-old man for allegedly being part of a "scene" release group that specializes in pre-release music.
The group, DV8, has been cited in leaking 2500 albums before their retail street date. The IFPI investigation has already netted "a substantial quantity of promotional CDs, and computer ... [ read the full article ]
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prerelease/postrelease/20 year release it's going to get pirated anyway. The music connoisseurs will buy it and enjoy it, the pirate will download it (because he can) and probably won't even listen to it.
What I'm interested in is what kind of fine he will be getting, will he be getting a 2 million dollar (pound) fine? or is "time served" in prison good enough?
Wowee!
Congrats to those tenacious law officers of ours. Just think if the tens of millions/hundreds of millions of pounds were spent where they were really needed. Its a damn good thing they got those dirty copyright offenders off the streets. Maybe some people will wake up one day and look at the corporations, their lawyers, and the politicians that back them, and decide how much better life could be if we didn't have people like this running things. How many millions of taxes were swindled by these people during this time? The public is getting fleeced, but were just to stupid to realize. When will we wake up?
